Lung Cancer is a
"Contemporary Epidemic in American Women"
Women who smoke or used to smoke do not deserve lung cancer. No one does.
Lung cancer is the #1 cancer killer of women.
It accounts for 1 of 4 cancer deaths among women,
killing more each year than breast, uterine and ovarian cancers combined.
In the U.S., 17,000 women who had never smoked in their lives die from lung cancer each year.
This is over four times the number of cervical cancer deaths.
The rate of lung cancer among women has risen 60% since 1990.
Lung cancer surpassed breast cancer as the #1 cancer killer of women in 1987.
31,000 more women die each year from lung cancer than from breast cancer.
The 5-year survival rate for breast cancer is now 89%.
The 5-year survival rate for lung cancer is 15%.
Total Research Funding per Breast Cancer Death: $24,000
Total Research Funding per Lung Cancer Death: $1,400